Category: 6m

Friday was a good day for Sporadic-E, with further opening to South America on 12m and 10m. 6m reception was using the Wellbrook Loop ALA100LN at IO83ls – it’s not designed for it, but it does perform. Changes have been…

The 50/70 MHz duo-band Yagi and the 2m Quad have been taken down for routine maintenance. In the interim, I was interested to see if the Wellbrook Loop (Model ALA100LN) – which is used for LF/MF/HF reception – could pick…

The reactivation of the KiwiSDRs from the home location revealed a noisy spectrum with weak signals, and pronounced vDSL interference. The spectrum was not a surprise, and was the reason why I initiated a remote antenna project last year. Now…

1st RSGB MGM Contest 2018 FT8, and other Machine Generated Modes (MGM), have become increasingly popular over the last few years. It will be interesting to see how many new callsigns appear in this event.